A GROUP OF FIVE PERSIAN EMBOSSED BRASS PLAQUES

A GROUP OF FIVE PERSIAN EMBOSSED BRASS PLAQUES

PROBABLY TEHRAN, LATE 19TH CENTURY

depicting various scenes, including: a mounted falconer, figures in an arcaded interior, a lady with two maids, four figures in a garden and a mounted huntsman, some with inscriptions in Arabic (5)

24 x 17cm (max)

Provenance

Charles Lumb & Sons Ltd from whom purchased on the 16 July 1991

Catalogue Note

A letter from the Keeper at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford suggests that 'They must be close relatives of Tehran figural tiles of the late 19th century' in that 'their size is approximately the same and the framing is similar too'.